Nice 1914 Chip Carved Tramp Art Lidded Pedestal Box with Great Dry Wood Patina Cheney Clapp good behavior 3 7/8" wide

3 7/8" wide

with tons of character

Signed "Maya" on the underside

and closer to $100 to L

then multiple pencil drawn frames around the whole thing

Nice 1914 Chip Carved Tramp Art Lidded Pedestal Box with Great Dry Wood Patina Cheney Clapp good behavior 3 7/8" wideIn my experience it's a pretty rare thing to find an old tramp art box that wasn't varnished or painted, making the patina to the dry cigar box wood on this one feel all the more special. I've also got a particular penchant for pedestal shaped tamp boxes, with the construction of their necks involving another level of stacking. There are certainly much fancier ones out there than this, but I love this one a lot, including, perhaps especially, for its